Keyboard arrangement

Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) [photo: Jonn Leffmann]

When the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, what next?

Quizzically orchestrated by vexed jazz-folk composer Wagner

– his mojo favours quite waxed zips – lo! an alphabetically arranged

fanfare! Banjo, didgeridoo, harmonica, kazoo, pipa, quena, vuvuzela, whistle, xylophone

build a wavering muzak from just quiet to an expert cacophony.

© C A Lovegrove

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Typists of a certain age will recall exercises of the quick brown fox sort designed to train beginners to touch-type. Each stanza here also includes all the letters of the English alphabet.

Antivax anxiety

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That group who are stridently antivax?
Their hatred of jabs mounts up to the max.
They say “No-one knows just what naughtiness goes
into vaccines;” but note, they are somewhat lax
when it comes to what food in their belly
they have put; one I asked if he’d tell, he
said “Real finger-lickin’, that chlorine-filled chicken,”
and believed all they said, on the telly,
and online: “See, you can’t explain away,”
he said, “vaccine harm to our DNA;
we must all get to grips with effects microchips…”
Urgh — why can’t anyone take all this pain away?

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Coronaverse: an alphabet of terms related to Covid-19. Tomorrow brings us the letter B.

Alpha waves

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A is for Archetypes,
they dwell in our thoughts,
B is for Brains
hosting memes of all sorts.
C is for Cats which
we watch on our screens,
D is for Dreams where
all’s not what it seems.

Alpha et omigosh

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Aetiologically, behind church dogma
exist fairytales, glossed historical
in Jewish knowledge: legends,
mythological now our periodic questing
reveals said tales unverified;
voices waxing xenial, yet zigzagging.

A maze

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A
man,
woman
and a cat
amazingly
attracted my
attention: they
entered a zoo, flew
through a maze. Exits
blocked, quick as a
flash, cornered,
three jumped,
reversed, u-
turning,
and so
did
I

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• All alphabet letters appear
• Characters in each line increase and decrease incrementally
• Like a unicursal maze the centre is a dead end; the only option is to retrace your route to exit

The Real McCoy

How should I describe thee?

Let me list the ways:

arrogant, bullying, cheating demagogue,
egotistical, fascistic, groping hypocrite,
ignorant, jeering, kleptomaniac liar,
misogynistic, narcissistic, obscene pussygrabber,
queer bashing, racist, self-serving totalitarian,
unqualified, vulgar womaniser,
xenophobic, yahoo Zionazi

and that’s just for starters

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